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CHAPTER 32
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2026-06-18 20:59:55
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Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Mated to His Rival Brother CHAPTER 33
CIARA'S POVDraven stood there with a tray balanced against his hip — bread, stew, the quiet routine he'd built without ever announcing it as a routine."How did training go?" he asked, stepping past me into the room."It changed everything, actually." I shut the door behind him. "Serafine told me the heat isn't separate from my wolf. It never was. She *is* the power. Every time it's surged — the heat I've been describing to you for weeks — that was just her, surfacing."He set the tray down and turned to look at me with real interest. "So when you've been afraid of losing control—""I've been afraid of her. Yes." I sat across from him, still working through it myself. "And every time I pushed it down, told myself to calm it, I wasn't managing some wild force. I was silencing her."Draven went quiet, watching me with the kind of stillness that meant he was actually turning it over rather than waiting for his turn to speak."That changes how you'll have to think about training," he sai
Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Mated to His Rival Brother CHAPTER 32
CIARA'S POVThree weeks in, I started to feel the difference.The power used to arrive without warning — a flood, sudden and total, no space between feeling fine and feeling like my skin couldn't hold what was underneath it. Now there was a moment before. A low warmth sitting just beneath my sternum, like a coal that hadn't caught yet.My wolf, stirring before she surfaced."There," I said, sitting up straighter. "Right there — do you see it? Well, you can't see it, but something just happened. I felt her before she rose. A breath of warning. Maybe two." I pressed my palm flat against my chest. "She's awake right now. I can feel her."Serafine's hands stilled over the herbs she'd been sorting. She looked up properly this time. "Describe it. Don't simplify it for my benefit."I frowned, trying to find the actual shape of the thing rather than a tidy version of it. "Before, it felt like something happening to me. Like she would surge up out of nowhere and I'd just be carried along by it
Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Mated to His Rival Brother CHAPTER 31
Draven's POVMarcus brought me the report at first light. One name, underlined twice — his way of telling me he was confident without saying so directly.Wren. Senior guard, twelve years in the pack. The kind of man nobody watched because nobody had ever needed to.I didn't act on it immediately. Confidence wasn't proof, and proof was the only thing I cared about. I had Marcus follow him for four days — quietly, no pattern to it that Wren would notice. Where he went on his hours off. Who he spoke to. What he did with his coin.By the third night, Marcus had it. A tavern two villages east, well outside our usual patrol routes. A man there Wren met with regularly — not a pack member, not anyone Marcus recognized, careful enough to never give a name.By the fourth day, I had what I needed.I sent for Wren that evening. Quiet request, delivered by a runner, nothing in the wording that would alarm him. He came in relaxed, the way a man does when he believes he's done nothing wrong and has
Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Mated to His Rival Brother CHAPTER 30
Ciara’s POVI found Draven that evening on the wide terrace overlooking the pack gardens.He was standing at the stone railing with a glass he hadn't touched, looking out over the grounds. The garden below was lit by lanterns strung between the trees, their light moving softly in the evening breeze. He turned when he heard my footsteps."How was she?" he asked."Honest." I leaned against the railing beside him. "Aggressively, completely honest. I found it refreshing and slightly terrifying."The corner of his mouth moved. "Sit."There were two chairs set back from the railing. We took them, turned slightly toward each other, the garden spread out below us and the night settling in around the edges."Tell me," he said.So I did. I told him about the *Veyrath* — the name, the history, the myth of the Moon Goddess and what Serafine believed about it. I told him about the politics of it, the old packs that had built alliances around it, the ones that had tried to control it. I told him wh
Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Mated to His Rival Brother CHAPTER 29
Ciara's POVA week had passed since we returned from my uncle's pack, and I had kept my distance from Draven.I simply needed space to think, and he — to his credit — had given it without making me ask twice. He didn't crowd me. Didn't send Marcus with polite summons or manufacture reasons to appear wherever I was. He simply... left room.Which should have helped.It didn't entirely.Because the space I'd put between us somehow made me more aware of him, not less. The morning he passed me in the corridor and said nothing, just inclined his head slightly, his eyes holding mine for a second before he moved on — I thought about that look for the rest of the day and couldn't explain why. The evening we ended up at the same table during a pack dinner and he'd leaned over once to say something dry and quiet about the Beta seated across from us, and I'd had to press my lips together to keep from laughing — that had been worse. The warmth of it had sat in my chest long after I'd gone to bed
Rejected by the Alpha Heir, Mated to His Rival Brother CHAPTER 28
Kaden's POVThe library was one of the quietest rooms in the pack house — high shelves, north-facing windows, the kind of cold grey light that discouraged casual visitors. I had always liked it for that reason. Most people only came here when they needed something specific. It was not a room for lingering.Ciara was lingering.She sat in the chair nearest the window with a book open across her knees and her eyes somewhere else entirely. On her wrist, a thin braided bracelet — worn, the colors faded. She was turning it slowly between her fingers without seeming to know she was doing it. Her expression was something I didn't have a name for. Grief that had been picked up and examined and not yet put back down.I stopped at the door.Garrett's voice in my head, already composing the sentence he would use if he saw me standing here: *My lord, what exactly are you hoping to accomplish.* Reasonable question. I didn't have a reasonable answer.I walked in anyway.She heard me and looked up.
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